First International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P'01)
Towards a Content-based Aggregation Network
Lingk?ping, Sweden
August 27-August 29
ISBN: 0-7695-1503-7
We present an architecture for content-based aggrega-tion in peer-to-peer filesharing networks. It is designed to significantly reduce the amount of nodes that have to be queried, by introducing a distributed index into the system. This index allows content to be located in a peer-to-peer network without using broadcast-style techniques. We also show how this index can be created and maintained in a decentralized self-organizing fashion.